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UshiromiyaEva posted...

I guess KH3 just sticks out in my mind as being a particular disaster, but I'm certain it sold very well.

I don't really count stuff like rythmn games but that's just me being nitpicky.

KH3 is a phenomenal game post launch though. I can certainly believe launch KH3 wasn't that good but I played it after and it's unquestionably the tightest, most enjoyable, most fun Kingdom Hearts game. The story even ends well with the DLC, too.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

I know Square Enix is mostly to blame for this because of the extremely liberal way they slap Nomura's name on things but it's still nuts to me how often folks attribute games to him where he had little to almost completely nothing to do with the game itself

I need to research Theatrhythm but Nomura was absolutely heavily involved in Stranger of Paradise and NEO TWEWY. He was the guy pushing and pushing to the suits for NEO to get greenlit, he did the character designs for most of the characters and so on. Stranger of Paradise was flat out his story concept, too. He's spoken at length about how he had the story of 'an angry man' in the pocket since Dissidia Duodecim. Team Ninja did the gameplay, but the game concept was Nomura's brainchild and he's the one who got Kazushige Nojima to write the story treatment.